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that first night of summer with the air conditioner on you feel like you've defeated nature that first night of with the air conditioner on you feel like you're a god that first night when y...

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I have this clipboard that I keep my poems or my songs upon when I read or when I sing and here's the thing it used to be my work clipboard when I was a medical courier in LA when I went...

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I called it day one the day I woke up and remembered in mansions and free clinics with psychics and with cynics I've seen a small slice of most things on this Earth except for war and givin...

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control-z undo there are the times on your laptop when you go to "paste" and you find some old love-letter unsent on your computer's clipboard accidentally cut and saved instead of e...

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Götterdämmerung, Bildungsroman both sound real classy in the original German the second means "coming of age story" the first means "the twilight of the gods" I think I feel both of these co...

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the birdsong so deafening the blinding sunlight I want the city I want the night I'm sick of bad dreams spilling out full life reviews I want to change I want something new I want a reaso...

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it's a difficult thing holding on to an atomic bomb it is even weirder when the bomb is your mom because my mom is the bomb she is the best in a crisis the lady gets things done she's t...

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rambling home near midnight marveling at the beautiful moon's light upon the horizon until I get closer and see its advertising an illuminated billboard reminding us of job openings for w...

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anti-social socialists well-established anarchists growing listless making lists wide awake and tired of it we just want to be the best we just want to rest the contradictions are building ...

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Robert Johnson didn't sell his soul to the devil at the crossroads to learn the guitar real pretty it was an earlier bluesman named Tommy Johnson it was a common name back then for Mississi...

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how to survive a lightning strike manage to get real lucky twice once to get hit once to stay alive a fluke and a gift on two rolls of the dice wouldn't it be nice wouldn't it be nice ...

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you work the saxons I'll work the angles gather from the ground I'll cut off what dangles they call them dumb rocks we'll call them bangles we'll take our needs string them like beads ...

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whiskey tango foxtrot alphanumeric spy stations call out on the shortest of shortwaves some people say it's the Russians some people say they're actually the CIA and some people sa...

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running the booth next to the caricature artist at an arts and crafts fair I keep bobbing my head on reflex as if I was ruining the photo by having my face in the shot but no no ...

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young street buskers old professional wrestlers performance artists and master baristas these are the people I have learned from burlesque dancers car dispatchers baseball hecklers an...

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ten fifteen minutes twenty minutes shuffling there in the sick fluorescent shimmer of the Wal-Mart flood lights trying to pick a baby shower gift for old friends realizing you have no idea ...

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I saw a statue of a porcupine knitting with two of its barbs using two parts of its deterrence to bring wool yarn together into something useful into a sweater or a scarf or something ...

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yes, of course I am insecure yes, of course I am doing this partly because I am insecure but what you have to remember is that's good it's a good thing it's good that this comes from a p...

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there are days I try to be bukowski but with less misogyny there are days I try to be ginsberg but with a little bit less sodomy and there are the days I try to be twain but with a little...

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home is where the heart is breaking home is where the heart is clogging with arterial fat home is where the heart is skipping its beats in despair home is where the heart is dying so get ...

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I'm not fat I'm famine-resistant I'm not fat yes I'm two men by weight but look at it this way I'm your own personal three-way I'm not fat I'm plush I'm a comfortable couch against wh...

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drape yourself in sheets of difference or better yet advertise all of the ways we're all really the same but do it with your full heart everyday and do it without shame bleed it in your w...

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in the earliest spring up here in the north county on the lonely roads in the dead of the night if there's a full enough moon when the trees are bare if you have enough imagination with th...

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tattoos you've got yours that's fine but I wear mine on the inside flip my skin and you would find a tapestry marked off in time an illustrated man of broken plans of high-watermar...

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I never could figure out unconditional love of self without tipping overboard into seas of raging narcissism and so in hopes of not being such an asshole I raised high the flag of self-doubt...

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